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When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

In the UK, everything is done on paper - even if there was potential for fraud, scaling it across the whole nation would take years and huge amounts of money (and even more hush money)



We had a presidential election in 2000 that was stolen in public by the GOP, despite being on paper. They did it with a technicality.

They're doing the same with signature matching (your signature on your ballot has to match a different signature that could be many years older).

Paper is safe from people outside the system, but not from politicized courts that are able to ignore paper ballots for minor mistakes.


I liked how an election advocate buddy said it one time:

"GWB doesn't lose his right to speech when he makes another gaff. Under no circumstances should a voter lose their right to vote for a mistake."

It just slays me that we're still arguing about this.


Keep in mind the whole hanging chad situation is also impossible because we just use pencils.

But the legal aspect is troubling too




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